Dispelling the darkness : voyage in the malay archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin / John van Wyhe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Wyhe, John, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naturalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Naturalists.

Natural selection.

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.

Wallace, Alfred Russel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness."" T H Huxley (1887). Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; There's Something About Wallace; Evolution and Science Amnesia; Chapter 1 Great Expectations; Bringing Up Wallace; Public school boy; In London town; Origins and Species; Darwin Gets to Work; A. R. Wallace, Surveyor; Wallace in Leicester; Wallace in Neath; Darwin's Drafts; The Amazon Expedition, 1848-1852; Science for Sale; Chapter 2 Empires of Steam; Egypt; Chapter 3 Singapore; A Forgotten Singapore; Commerce; The Inhabitants of Singapore; Finding Wallace; Tigers; The Chinese Riots; Chapter 4 Malacca and Borneo; Durian; The Mountain of Gold

Darwin Turns to Species Singapore, 25 September-17 October 1854; Borneo, 29 October 1854-10 February 1856; Chapter 5 Testing the Waters; The Sarawak Law Essay; Branching; The higher law; Bold conclusion; What was the Sarawak law?; Si Munjon, Borneo, 14 March-27 November 1855; Insect captures; Labels; The practice of collecting; Bats and cats; The men of the forest; Wallace's baby; Housebound again; Wallace and head-hunters; Sarawak, c. 6 December 1855-10 February 1856; Chapter 6 Crossing the Line; Writing; Anti-Adaptation; Back to Bukit Timah, March-May 1856; Darwin's Big Book

Bali, 13-15 June 1856 Lombok, 17 June-30 August 1856; The evolution of the Wallace Line; Macassar, Celebes, 2 September-13 December 1856; Chapter 7 In Search of Paradise; Aru Islands, 8 January-2 July 1857; Macassar, 12 July-19 November 1857; Groping into darkness; The 2nd Macassar species notes; The Aru paper; The permanent varieties paper; Maros, c. 11 September-8 November 1857; Wallace's tiger beetles; Timor, 24/25-c. 26 November 1857; Banda, c. 28-29 November 1857; Amboyna, 30 November 1857-4 January 1858; Chapter 8 Struggle and Spice; Wallace's Ternate House; The Mystery of February 1858

Solving the Mystery The Eureka Moment; Malthus; The spark; The Ternate Essay; The struggle for existence; The origin of varieties; What were varieties?; The role of the environment; A divergence digression; Back to the essay; What was it about?; What was it for?; Gilolo, c. 19 February-1 March 1858; Wallace and "savages"; Ternate, 1-25 March 1858; "The next post"; How the Ternate essay reached Darwin; "In order to send it to Darwin"; Dorey, New Guinea, 11 April-29 July 1858; Wallace the spy?; The thunderbolt strikes; Chapter 9 The Longest Day; What Happened Next; The Main Event

Was It Fair to Wallace? Priority; Order; Credit; Was it proper to publish?; What Did Wallace Say?; What Did Darwin Say?; Cleaning Up the File; Chapter 10 Darwin's Delay; Darwin's Secret?; The Darwin Don Quixotes; Like Confessing a Murder?; What Did People Say?; Not Finished; Chapter 11 Crossing Back; Gilolo, 14 September-1 October 1858; Ternate, 2-9 October 1858; Tidore, 9-10 October 1858; Kaióa, 13-20 October 1858; Batchian, 21 October 1858-13 April 1859; Ternate, 20 April-1 May 1859; Coupang, Timor, 13-27 May 1859; Semao, c. 17-20 May 1859; Menado, Celebes, 10 June-23 September 1859

Ceram, 31 October-28 December 1859

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814458818

9814458813

OCLC:

854974123